Hello Jame!
10 Jun 2011 11:10, Jame Clay wrote to Maurice Kinal:

There are Perl FTN related modules available which use such things as the
pack function to do things like read/write FTN packets. The PERL echo is
back in distribution and discussions about such things is more than
welcome there!

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[N] perl-gcpan/FTN-Database [1] (0.20): FTN SQL Database related operations fo
Fidonet/FTN related processing.
[N] perl-gcpan/FTN-JAM [1] (0.04): A Perl extension for handleing JAM messagebases.
[N] perl-gcpan/FTN-Log [1] (0.06): Perl extension for logging Fidonet Technology Networks (FTN) related processing.
[N] perl-gcpan/FTN-SRIF [1] (0.05): Perl extension to parse an Fidonet/FTN Standard Request Information File.
[1] "fidonet" /var/lib/layman/fidonet
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added your 4 perl modules to my gentoo overlay, gentoo/funtoo users can now install via portage like this:
layman -a fidonet
emerge -a FTN-SRIF
or other modules, thanks for helping more users

I don't know if he's done the other FTN modules yet...


Jame


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Hey Jame!

the localtime function itself returns it as a zero based integer

You're right. I never noticed that before. Everything I have ever used relating to dating has months numbered from 1 to 12. Mind you I haven't
used Perl all that much and when I have it looked more like a shell
script. Live and learn eh?

a zero based index is just as valid as a 1 based index

I'll have to take your word on that. Everything I have ever used up to
this point in time has been 1 based relating to months. I'll have to
check (again) if Posix time in Perl behaves like localtime. According
to the DateTime module;

$month = $dt->month; # 1-12

so it appears that the posix modules in Perl follow the 1 based index
which explains why I was under the impression it was a universal
standard given that the DateTime module uses 'time' which is a Perl
posix function (number of seconds since the epoch) and resembles
coreutils' date which is what I am most familiar with.

If you or anyone else do find such issues, please comment on it, preferably in the PERL echo

:-)

Turns out that I was wrong. I think I'll stick with bash scripting.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Hey Jame!

the localtime function itself returns it as a zero based integer

You're right. I never noticed that before. Everything I have ever used relating to dating has months numbered from 1 to 12.

I first noticed it because I found I had to take it into account when I rewrote a shell script using Date information as a Perl script. One of the many things that emphasized that reading the Man pages is a good thing...<g>

Mind you I haven't used Perl all that much and when I have it
looked more like a shell script. Live and learn eh?

Indeed!<g>

.... According to the DateTime module;
$month = $dt->month; # 1-12
so it appears that the posix modules in Perl follow the 1 based index
which explains why I was under the impression it was a universal
standard given that the DateTime module uses 'time' which is a Perl
posix function (number of seconds since the epoch) and resembles
coreutils' date which is what I am most familiar with.

So you're mostly coming from the shell scripting side of things?



Jame


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